Telephone index



Sept. a, 1925. 1,552,976 G. ANDERSON TELEPHONE INDEX Filed May 4, 1925 Q F2157. Z

l "IIIIIIIII INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALKER G. ANDERSON, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OE ONE-HALF TO CHARLES D. C. HUESTIS, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

TELEPHONE INDEX.

Application filed May 4,

'10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALKER G. ANDER- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of l Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Indexes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a telephone-index for use more especially on oilice desks and by which the names and telephone-numbers of various subscribers may be readily found.

The invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a telephone-index embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the stand with the index leaves omitted. Fig. 3 is a view of the same partly in plan and partly in horizontal section, said section being taken substan tially on broken line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and including the index leaves as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of one of the index leaves.

In carrying out the invention, I provide a rigid stand which, as best shown in Fig. 2, comprises a base element 5, a post element 6 extending upwardly therefrom and surmounted by a transversely arranged bar 7, from which extend upwardly directed spaced apart rods 8 and 9, all of said parts being rigid one with the other.

The rods 8, hereinafter designated as stops, one at each end of the bar 7 are of less height than the intermediate rods 9, which are hereinafter designated as pivot rods.

Detachably mounted upon each of such pivot rods is a card gripping member 10 consisting of a piece of sheet metal or an equivalent which is folded and formed to provide a loop 11 to receive a pivot rod and two lips 12, for gripping an index card 13 therebetween. These cards are suitably ruled and indexed, each bearing an alphabetic letter, or a number of such letters, arranged in sequence from A to Z upon the successive cards. The names of tele- 1925. Serial No. 27,757.

phone subscribers may be written or printed with pen and ink or by means of a typewriter upon the appropriate cards.

For typewriting a subscribers name and telephone number upon a card, the latter is temporarily removed from the respective gripping member 10.

The rods 8 and 9 are disposed approxi mately in a plane and inclined rearwardly in order that the cards when turned by the operator to one side or the other about their pivotal connection with the respective rods 9 will be held by gravitation until rearranged. The stops 8 serve as rests for the cards, one or more, which are pivotally connected by the gripping members to the rods 9 to expose to view the reading matter upon any of the cards selectively.

The invention is of simple and inexpensive construction and affords a most convenient means for readily obtaining the telephone calls of subscribers whose names appear upon the various cards.

What I claim, is,

1. In a telephone-index, the combination with a rigid stand having a base element, a post element extending upwardly therefrom, a transversely arranged bar element, and a series of rods extending upwardly from said bar element, of a plurality of index cards, and gripping members for the respective cards, each of these gripping members consisting of a sheet of metal folded to form at the bend a rod receiving loop and with two lips for detachably engaging a card therebetween.

2. A telephone-index comprising in combination a plurality of indexed cards, a stand having rigid therewith a series of upwardly and rearwardly extending rod elements one for each card, card gripping members provided with loops detachably engageable with the respective rod elements for hingedly connecting the cards thereto, said gripping members being held by gravitation upon said rods, and a stop device disposed at each end of the series of rods, said stops being of less heights than the rods.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 15th day of April, 1925.

WALKER G. ANDERSON. 

